Now that's a vacuum former!

Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:14 PM

basswood form with evergreen strips for the framining apoxied to the form and vaccumformed

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giobosco

Member since
September 2004
From: Perth Western Australia

Posted by giobosco on Sunday, June 19, 2005 12:52 AM

Hi Jeff and all,

yeah, I must agree they are really useful, one question though as I have never done this before, but read in one recent issue of FSM....How do we get the frame to show through when vacu-forming canopies?

Thanks to all

Gianni

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 5:14 PM

how about something more realistic for us budget modelers :)

www.warmplastic.com

Jeff

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Duke Maddog

Member since
June 2003
From: Rowland Heights, California

Posted by Duke Maddog on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10:57 AM

Yeah, that is cool. I got to use a slightly bigger version at Knott's Berry Farm to vac-form some brick wall sections that were destined to be installed on several Halloween Haunt maze walls. The one I used was a 4-foot by 4-foot square. They are lots of fun to use!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 6, 2005 10:08 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by markworthi

It's yours for a mere $3500.

Mark

Plus $231 for the external vacuum. And, here in North Carolina the sales tax adds another $245, bringing you pretty close to a round $4,000. And I thought Lie-Nielsen hand planes were expensive[:0]

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scottrc

Member since
December 2003
From: 37deg 40.13' N 95deg 29.10'W

Posted by scottrc on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:20 PM

Maybe I'll show my wife and she might buy it for me, she is getting tired of me using her Kirby and stove on my old homebuilt Vac machine.

Scott

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Woody

Member since
December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:12 PM

I actually would like to have a vacuformer like that. Seems large scale Sci-Fi models might become popular and vac hulls would be much more economical than large resin models. I would love to master a kit of the Rebel Blockade runner from Star Wars but the amount of resin needed would make for a very expensive and heavy model.